Taking Orkans class helped tremendously, after that it's been trying to do what I learned.

The first 10 shots did not look that good I was on average 2 mils high and 2 left after the shot. I was uncomfortable and there was tension and muscling going on. Raising my rifle put me in a more comfortable position that helped.

But even with that if I hadn't done what Orkan has come up with in his zero force firing position than it probably wouldn't have worked out so well. I mean the rifle had a muzzle break on it before hand and that helped but I was able to improve upon it getting into a better position. A new adjustable stock helped put me in better position but that didn't fix it.

Yep. Range report thread. Get out and shoot. Start yourself a thread. Post pics and some details of the day. The. You can track your progress over time. Many of us started out shooting every day and it is very revealing to see the good days and bad (post them both). It is helpful to see what others are struggling with and what their solution finally is. We just recently divided up into individual threads for each person...but March will Mark 2 years since we started and you will see drastic improvement in every one of the people that shoot regularly. So get you a RRT started!

Yep. Range report thread. Get out and shoot. Start yourself a thread. Post pics and some details of the day. The. You can track your progress over time. Many of us started out shooting every day and it is very revealing to see the good days and bad (post them both). It is helpful to see what others are struggling with and what their solution finally is. We just recently divided up into individual threads for each person...but March will Mark 2 years since we started and you will see drastic improvement in every one of the people that shoot regularly. So get you a RRT started!

Thanks for the replies fellas. Perfect timing. I'm just about to sight in a new rifle I just had built. So, it'll be a great gun to start with. It's literally only had 10 rounds down the pipe by the gunsmith. As soon as I have a chance to get some shooting time, I'll start one. Looking forward to getting to know y'all! 👍

Went to the range today to try and get things ready for Hunting, actually had a little more time then I thought, which wasn’t a good thing because it meant the Combine went down and now I’m not sure we’ll finish for the first weekend. Oh well, there’s the second weekend.

Zeroed in and noticed something that I would not have noticed a year ago, (now I’m sure a couple of people have heard this many times but) Vortex PSTs or at the very least mine, sucks. The elevation seems to track true enough, but if I dial windage it usually causes an elevation shift on the first shot after windage adjustment, then settles back in

First target:

Upper left was the first zero, and where I first noticed it. Then I went back to 200 and 300 to check what the ballistic calculator said, the 200 yard group is the center, the 300 yard Group is below

Wow where did all that windage come from? Anyone want to guess? It wasn’t wind. I figured it out after shooting the second 200 yard group of 3. I was at a loss for a little bit, and thought about trying to get a hold of Greg, but then I went through everything mentally and figured it out. (I lost the target I figured it out on though no picture)

And with that figured out I went back to 550 yards, after getting hits on steel I shot a target to see where it was, and put this nice little group on it, measured 1.557” (only three round group) and low and to the left.

At this point I was trying to figure out why the Ballistic calculator was off, and decided I would chronograph it so I went to the 100 yard bench and shot the group in the upper left over a cheap chronograph. That group is 4 shots, and I was in a weird position, the bench was similar to this:

So in order to square up to the rifle I was on my left knee and standing on my right leg and as straight behind everything as I could and somehow managed that group in the upper left.

I went back later and chronographed with the magneto speed and it showed my velocity was right where I measured before, that cheap one was about 60FPS faster. And the paper seems to confirm that it looks like it was .2 mil low (doing the math I can’t see much at that distance with that scope) and adding .2 mil would have put me in line with the calculations.